Re: [Devil-linux-develop] About attempts to boot using EFI

[Serge L. <ser...@gm...>]

Andrzej,

at this moment I have 2 working build environments ( the current is gcc 
4.6.3/glibc 2.15, the former is gcc 4.5.2/glibc 2.12) which I will be happy to 
share.

The both toolchains are well-tested and stable, however they are not a truly DL, 
because it was necessary to add a lot of patches to scripts and sources.

grub2 is a part of this system, so EFI boot should not be a problem. The only 
issue with submitting all this stuff back in DL source control is backward 
compatibility which I cannot guarantee ( with reasonable time contribution).

Serge


On 01/09/2013 07:25 AM, Andrzej Odyniec wrote:
> Dear Heiko,
>
> I mentioned that I'll try to boot using EFI.
>
> It seems that for the EFI boot (at least using Syslinux) we must wait a bit.
>
> Although I was able to load the kernel using syslinux compiled on Arch Linux,
> but there are no way to compile git syslinux with efi on DL build environment.
>
> Syslinux maintainers are from Intel. They use newest versions of compiler and
> glibc.
>
> I tried to do an update of DL to gcc 4.7.2 and glibc 2.16, but there are a lot
> dependencies and patches. I came to keepalive and gave up. C11 changes are
> included in the gcc 4.7 and glibc 2.16 but in many applications have not yet.
>
> It seems that the authors of the packages or maintainers must patch sources.
> And it probably will take about six months or longer.
>
> I think you have a similar view.
>
> Best Regards and Happy New Year.
>
> Andrzej Odyniec
>
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